To do so, I sat down with Nicolas Samuel Lietzau, Enderal’s project lead – who was also responsible for crafting the game’s huge 250k page script and directing the English and German localisations that featured a cast of over 80 professional voice actors – to find out how this colossal total-conversion mod was brought to life.Īs Enderal is built using the Creation Engine, you’d expect there to be some overlap with Skyrim that goes beyond using the same assets. With the studio behind the project, SureAI, boasting over 1.5 million downloads of Enderal to date and with dozens of reviews on Steam praising it as being superior to Skyrim, I just had to find out what it is that makes this game so special.

In fact, Enderal offers over 30 hours of original content, it’s basically free (though you will need to own a copy of the original Skyrim to be able to download it), and it’s finally available on Steam. And, yeah, those wolves you’ll be running away from – more on that later – look exactly like the ones you would loot in Skyrim to find garnets (don’t ask me how they go in there), but everything story and character-wise is brand new. So, sure, the textures and surroundings might look a little familiar from time to time – they are based on those of the wilderness and the Bannered Mare, after all. The game may have been made using Bethesda’s Creation Engine, but Enderal won’t give you any major déjà-vû as it’s effectively an entirely new game.

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